Two very unlikely people, a CEO and a Foundation Overseer, somehow fall in love through blood and secrecy, and end up with more than they bargained for.
Black moon rise, white comet set
Put the guns into play, on your lips, into my coffers
What kind of mire have we started?
Will we ever find its end?
Likened selves on the top of the world ache for other mountains
Their valleys plunge into death’s shadow, uncertainty collapsing
As life extracts itself, the passage of time beaten
Ask the question—when can we stop counting?
Our years, our moments, our lost greed?
When can that commensurate knot finally tie?
To whom do we owe debts, to whom are we creditors?
What fates have we sealed, what heads will need to roll?
And where do betrayals of the highest order lie, my dear?
◈
◈
A multi-decade love story between a (former) Foundation Overseer, Selena Ruiz Montgomery Cortez and the CEO of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd., Percival Atherolis Darke. Featuring a father, a mother, a dead-end job, an Internal Affairs agent with maternal dreams, a miserable pile of secrets, an extremely seductive cannibal, uncertainty in three business suits, and two women who find they are a lot more alike than perhaps they first thought.
Prologue:
A Murder and Relief in the Dark
◈
Act 1:
Pierce the Velvet
To Love a Snake With Blue Eyes
◈
Act 2:
Pleasure Is Greener on the Other Side of the Pasture
Love’s a Gamble I’m Sure to Lose
Time Passes Under Fluorescent Lights
◈
Act 3:
A Darke Family History
A Former O5’s Guide on How to Eat Lead and Destroy All of Your Retirement Plans